chief information officer

Chief information officers define and implement the ICT strategy and governance. They determine necessary resources for the ICT strategy implementation, anticipate ICT market evolutions and company business needs. They contribute to the development of the organisation's strategic plan and ensure that the ICT infrastructure supports the organisation's overall operations and priorities.

The most in-demand skills for this role include information structure, systems development life-cycle, information architecture, software architecture models, decision support systems, attack vectors. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives chief information officer a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.